It’s been waaay too long since my last blog post and I’ve had to deal with a number of personal issues, including various health problems and my recently successful KICKSTARTER campaign for my upcoming A GIRL CALLED ANA TEACHES KITTENS HOW TO DRAW graphic novel. And as usual, many of you out there have had various obstacles to deal with, too. And then there were numerous technical problems involving the submission dropbox thingie…arrgh!

So anyhooz, we decided to go ahead and extend the deadline for volume 4 all the way to FEBRUARY 7TH, 2013. This gives us time to figure out why some people are having trouble getting their submissions to upload, as well as giving some sugar ninjas extra time to finalize their pieces.

With this new deadline, the SWEET and SPICY books of SUGAR NINJAS VOL. 4 should be ready for printing sometime near the end of February, in plenty of time for next year’s convention season. Sounds like a plan, eh?

Gally will be in touch with those of you who have written about problems uploading artwork. For basic info about the submission process, click on the JOIN THE SUGAR NINJAS button on the front page. Remember, this is our first Read More

It’s been half a year since our last Sugar Ninjas update about the release of volume three. Why the long delay, and whatever happened to the interviews with Sugar Ninjas creators that were supposed to be posted many, many moons ago. The truth is that I was simply exhausted from three straight years of working on Sugar Ninjas, writing and illustrating my soon-to-be-completed graphic novel (ANA TEACHES KITTENS DRAWING AND DESIGN), and searching for another school interested in starting up a comics-based Sequential Art program. Despite being unemployed for the past three years, I still managed to fall victim to overwork and the dreaded “s” word: stress. Coupled with the relatively poor printing quality of far too many copies of volume three, I found that all I could do was temporarily shutdown and hope my batteries would recharge with time…and so they have!

My trusty assistant editor, Gally Articola, has been working with me to produce another version of Sugar Ninjas volume three, which will soon be made available at Amazon.com. Unfortunately, we couldn’t use the 9 x 7 inches format, so we had to settle for 8.5 x 8.5, which was just as tricky as you can imagine. But the superior Read More